The study was conducted in the Mopani District of Limpopo province to determine the factors affecting productivity of broiler production in the area. Data were collected from 86 sampled smallholder broiler farmers in three municipalities in Mopani District namely; Greater Tzaneen municipality, Greater Letaba municipality and Maruleng municipality using a well-structured questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that feed is significant at 10% level having a positive relationship with the broiler output. However, stock size and vaccines are significant at 1% level, also with a positive relationship with broiler output. The study recommended that government should find ways of linking the smallholder farmers in the study area with other stakeholders, governmental and private, to allow smallholder farmers have the opportunities to network and get to know how the commercial successful farms operate and see where they can improve on their production systems and marketing of products.

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Etuah, S. (2014). Cost Effi ciency and Economies of Scale in Broiler Production in Ghana. A Case Study of the Ashanti Region. Master of Philosophy in Agricultural Economics Thesis. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.